• The Internet is our future: BBC Chief

    (from The Age newspaper ). BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to…

  • The Social Networking Goldrush

    I discovered a very interesting opensourse 'social software' service called elgg.net today that on the surface, appears to be much better than that ugly old beast 'myspace' (elgg.net has a focus upon learning). This article by one the the writers on the elgg.net system, Ben Ward, tells it all. Whose Space?   In April 2005,…

  • iCommons Summit Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006

    “Towards a global digital commons” (From iCommons.org ). The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community – ‘free and open source software’,…

  • When you are hot, you’re hot!

    Youtube is creating it’s own ‘starsystem’ based on hits, word-of-mouth, and cross-media promotion. Check out this dance video. It’s sort of funny. More in the Age newspaper >>

  • data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics

    data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics I just found a fantasic site, that like the Atlas of Cyberspace, maps dataflow on the Internet (thanks to Lev Monovich for the link). The field is called 'infor aesthetics…check it out!

  • Glabalisation and the Everyday City

    This is an interview that I did in February 2002. It is about Fitzroy, the suburb in Melbourne where I live.